Live & Upcoming Programmes

How to Be a Better You EP61

1) What you miss when you focus on the average | Sharon Zicherman 2) Listen to your intuition — it can help you navigate the future | Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir 3) Your relationship expectations could be holding you back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile 4) How to reclaim your life from work | Simone Stolzoff 5) 3 reasons to take risks like a teenager | Adriana Galván 6) Is perfectionism just procrastination in disguise? | Jon Youshaei 7) Why you feel stuck — and how to get motivated | Shannon Odell

2025-12-23 21:10:51 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 22:12:26 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Ocean Wonders EP06

1) A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) | Hamish Jolly 2) The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais 3) Human sperm vs. the sperm whale - Aatish Bhatia 4) Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra 5) How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris 6) Why you should care about whale poo | Asha de Vos

2025-12-23 20:11:09 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 21:10:51 +0000 UTC (59m)

Ocean Wonders EP05

1) The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor | Laura Robinson 2) The fish that walk on land | Noah R. Bressman 3) Can seaweed help curb global warming? | Tim Flannery 4) Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures | David Gruber 5) Can the ocean run out of oxygen? | Kate Slabosky

2025-12-23 19:12:51 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 20:11:09 +0000 UTC (58m)

Under the Microscope EP02

1) Earth's original inhabitants -- and their role in combating climate change | Steven Allison 2) How the food you eat affects your gut - Shilpa Ravella 3) The breakthrough science of mRNA medicine | Melissa J. Moore 4) How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer | Joy Wolfram 5) What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? - Chad Orzel 6) Can you win a game of quantum foosball? | Matteo Fadel

2025-12-23 18:09:44 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 19:12:51 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Under the Microscope EP01

(1) What's the smallest thing in the universe? - Jonathan Butterworth (2) The wonders of the molecular world, animated | Janet Iwasa (3) How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA | Jennifer Doudna (4) How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis | Alexander Belcredi (5) To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi (6) Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease | Khalil Ramadi

2025-12-23 17:05:37 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 18:09:44 +0000 UTC (1h4m)

Get Smart(er) EP02

1) What a planet needs to sustain life | Dave Brain 2) The wars that inspired Game of Thrones | Alex Gendler 3) A stellar history of modern astronomy | Emily Levesque 4) How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | Steven Johnson 5) Would you raise the bird that murdered your children? | Steve Rothstein

2025-12-23 16:04:22 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 17:05:37 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Close Up and Personal EP09

1) A love story about the power of art as organizing | Aja Monet and phillip agnew 2) Why is this painting so shocking? | Iseult Gillespie 3) Why I photograph the quiet moments of grief and loss | Caroline Catlin 4) How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars | Wanda Diaz Merced 5) How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard

2025-12-23 10:44:19 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 11:43:43 +0000 UTC (59m)

Best of the Best EP01

(1) 3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone (2) The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3) The power of introverts | Susan Cain

2025-12-23 09:46:49 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 10:44:19 +0000 UTC (57m)

The Business Angle EP62

1) Is safety worth the loss of privacy? | Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez 2) Can salad dressing transform capitalism? | Alex Amouyel 3) How distributed work can unlock your potential | Avani Prabhakar 4) The economic opportunity hidden in the climate transition | Marielle Remillard 5) How much does it cost to fly private? | Rachel Yang 6) The clever trick used by sports betting apps | Shannon Odell

2025-12-23 08:46:10 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 09:46:49 +0000 UTC (1h)

The Business Angle EP61

1) Break the bad news bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey 2) Why spending smarter beats bigger budgets | Karthik Muralidharan 3) Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham 4) Ask dumb questions, embrace mistakes — and other lessons on innovation | Dave Raggio 5) The art of marketing — for good | Raja Rajamannar

2025-12-23 07:47:30 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 08:46:10 +0000 UTC (58m)

The Art of Being Human EP62

1) How to live a meaningful life | Brian S. Lowery 2) How art transforms brokenness into beauty | Lily Yeh 3) Do you talk to yourself? Here's how to harness your inner voice | Ethan Kross 4) What introverts wish everyone else knew | Shalewa Sharpe

2025-12-23 06:49:09 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 07:47:30 +0000 UTC (58m)

The Art of Being Human EP61

1) Lessons from my father's final days | Laurel Braitman 2) How your childhood toys tell your life story | Chris Byrne 3) What makes us human in the age of AI? A psychologist and a technologist answer | Brian S. Lowery and Kylan Gibbs

2025-12-23 05:52:53 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 06:49:09 +0000 UTC (56m)

Afternoon Snack EP02

1) The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love | Lizzo 2) Why do cats have vertical pupils? | Emma Bryce 3) Why there's no such thing as objective reality | Greg Anderson 4) A brief history of the devil | Brian A. Pavlac 5) Why should you read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding? | Jill Dash 6) Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate | Greg Gage

2025-12-23 04:49:48 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 05:52:53 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Your Purpose, Unlocked EP02

1) How to discover your authentic self -- at any age | Bevy Smith 2) How to stay calm under pressure - Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen 3) How to break down barriers and not accept limits | Candace Parker 4) How do we create a better economy? | TED-Ed 5) How a "Hi Level" mindset helps you realize your potential | Cordae 6) How to know if it's time to change careers⇥ | Chieh Huang

2025-12-22 22:46:09 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 23:49:32 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Your Purpose, Unlocked EP01

1) Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi Jones 2) Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang 3) What is imposter syndrome and how can you combat it? - Elizabeth Cox 4) Why the secret to success is setting the right goals | John Doerr 5) 5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos 6) The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor

2025-12-22 21:43:30 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 22:46:09 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Morning Motivation EP02

1) My secret to creating real magic | Christina Tosi 2) How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene 3) The 1-minute secret to forming a new habit | Christine Carter 4) 3 tips to boost your confidence | Amy Adkins 5) Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards 6) The future will be shaped by optimists | Kevin Kelly

2025-12-22 20:39:40 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 21:43:30 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Morning Motivation EP01

1) The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki 2) Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinç 3) My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes 4) How to change your behavior for the better | Dan Ariely

2025-12-22 19:42:17 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 20:39:40 +0000 UTC (57m)

Psych Out EP03

1) The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot 2) The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne 3) The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs | Dannagal G. Young 4) Do politics make us irrational? | Jay Van Bavel 5) 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd

2025-12-22 18:40:39 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 19:42:17 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Psych Out EP02

1) Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson 2) How gratitude rewires your brain | Christina Costa 3) What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's | Lisa Genova 4) Why we're more honest with machines than people | Anne Scherer

2025-12-22 17:41:48 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 18:40:39 +0000 UTC (58m)

Climate Action, Now! EP62

1) The absurd inequality of climate work — and how to fix it | Joshua Amponsem 2) How to feed 10 billion people — without destroying nature | Andy Jarvis 3) Climate progress isn't a sprint — it's a marathon | Greg De Temmerman 4) The high-wire act of unlocking clean energy | Jason Huang 5) The climate movement needs new stories — here's mine | Fenton Lutunatabua

2025-12-22 16:43:25 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 17:41:48 +0000 UTC (58m)